Restore MySQL DB with Unicode characters (Arabic and Kurdish) in .gz format

Question

I have a MySQL backup file in .gz format that was created by the backup wizard in cPanel. When the restoration is done by the backup wizard, contents with Arab

Answer 1

This is a fairly common problem caused by inconsistent encoding schemes when creating and exporting the database. Here is the simplest way to solve it:

1. Import your backup file
2. Export it again, but using latin1 encoding
3. Manually edit the exported file, change all occurrences of latin1 to utf8.
4. Import the edited file.